This request and release is about climate change risk from breakdown of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.
Type
Departmental
This request and release is about climate change risk from breakdown of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.
Type
Departmental
Details of the request
Can you please advise whether:
- MfE holds any information about the prospect of Amoc breaking down. If so please provide that information.
- MfE holds any information about the implications for the environment if a breakdown of Amoc does occur. If so please provide that information.
- MfE holds any information about the implications for world food production and world food trade if a breakdown of Amoc does occur. If so please provide that information.
- MfE has provided any advice to ministers, either formally or informally and either
orally or in written form (either draft or final) about the implications of a breakdown of Amoc
Response documents
- Currie - dilution of Atlantic ocean - Science June 2005 [PDF, 170 KB]
- Economic valuations of marine ecosystems - Foundazione Eni Enrico Mattei [PDF, 294 KB]
- Global warming commitment - Wigley, Meehl - Science (March 2005) [PDF, 711 KB]
- McManus Etal Atlantic Meridional circulation-Nature 21 April 2004 [PDF, 288 KB]
- UKCIP guidance note on MOC changes [PDF, 170 KB]
- Willeit et al 2019 Mid-Pleistocene transition in glalcial cycles explained by declining CO2 and regolith [PDF, 28 KB]